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Ouriel Ohayon

Plumbago - Microsoft's new notebook app

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noah rosenberg
Small history lesson: Micrsoft Courier was tech demo from 2008 that envisioned their tablet product. The team left and became Fifty Three, creators of Paper. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Diogo Neves
Is it me or Microsoft has been making a steady powerful comeback? I haven't used any MS product in the past 4 years but I'm tempted to give it a try
André J
@diogosnows I agree, that hinge-book...i mean surface-book is very cool. Now all m$ needs to do is get rid of the bloat and the corny marketing.
Jeffrey Wyman
@diogosnows Yes! I love Win 10, but the surface has a lot of room to improve. It's simply not as intuitive as your standard Android/iPad tablet, and it just feels bulky.
Rob Guilfoyle
@diogosnows I was in a presentation at a previous employer which MS was pitching their big data platform and the azure platform. Going into it I thought I would mainly be laughing at them. His opening statements were: "I know what your thinking, Microsoft needs to quit developing. We took a long look in the mirror and have started embracing in an unprecedented way open source on every one of our products. We're shooting for being the new prom queen." Was actually a very cool thing to hear from them.
Ouriel Ohayon
Hunter
They re going after paper. But for that they would have to release it also on iOS and Android.
Sam Christie
Was this really the best name they could come up with? Hope it changes in a future version.
André J
IOS please. Paper needs some competition in this area.
Daylen Sawchuk
I have been trying this on my Surface Pro 4 for a while, it reminds me of Drawboard PDF and Bamboo Paper. Personally, I'm not a big fan.
Randy Miller
I've always thought OneNote was Microsoft's best app in years when it came out and still think it's a pretty great interface and user experience, albeit not as lightweight for mobile as maybe it should be. Is the purpose of Plumbago to better serve the sketch and handwriting gap on mobile specifically, or a long term play to replace OneNote? And if the second, why was that a priority with a good offering already in place?
Daylen Sawchuk
@milla_killa It was made in Microsoft Garage, where Microsoft tests products and makes the best ones into full products. This is totally not meant to replace OneNote, which has many additional features such as collaboration, text, and video. It reminds me of a more updated version of Paint instead.
Daylen Sawchuk
This app is very similar to the sketchpad in Windows Ink Workspace. The major difference is that this app has notebooks, compared to only working on 1 page at once.